Fractal Tender SOS 0190 · uncommon
Fractal Tender · {3}{G}{U} · Creature — Elf Wizard · Ward {2} Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) At the beginning of each end step, if you put a counter on this creature this turn, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put three +1/+1 counters on it. · Power / toughness: 3/3
- Price
- from $0.211 printing
- Win rate
- 53.7% GIH 15,873 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickGrowing Tender can create a 3/3 Fractal at the end step; counter sources beyond increment can also qualify.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 8,522 wins in 15,873 card-in-hand instances.
14,964 distinct games · 5,479 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.
17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Growing Tender can create a 3/3 Fractal at the end step; counter sources beyond increment can also qualify.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Use land search and growing increment creatures to bridge into larger spells, then keep mana and cards flowing. Look for support such as Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth and Topiary Lecturer.
- What to take next
- Expensive casts can grow Lecturer and increase its future mana output. Tender rewards its own counters with additional Fractals.
- Wrong pick
- Increment compares mana spent with current power or toughness twice. A free spell usually does not grow anything.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Growing Tender can create a 3/3 Fractal at the end step; counter sources beyond increment can also qualify.
Draft data
−1.7 pp vs 55.4% average · 15,873 instances
Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games
#227 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.7 on average (63,637 packs).
66 of 83 multicolor cards · 27 of 35 multicolor uncommon cards.
16,895.4 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.5% · 5,792 instances
● Drawn later 55.0% · 10,081 instances
In hand 53.7% · 15,873 instances
Unseen in deck 50.6% · 18,478 instances
+3.1 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Quandrix Incremental Value UG54.9%3,690 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.7% · 15,873 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Studious First-Year14,330 games with both in the deckEmbrace the Paradox13,849 games with both in the deckPterafractyl13,316 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 29% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · prerelease-quandrix | $0.21 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.26 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 33 packs (3.00%) · 30.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 298 packs (0.34%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.38%) · 64.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a prerelease-quandrix · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Elizabeth Peiró, SOS 190 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Quandrix Incremental Value cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗